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Re: Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

Originally Posted by ScottD

Considering they would easily be seeing a 47% increase (given a best case scenario of 10% each year, based on the last decade) WITHOUT this bill, I would say they are paying MUCH LESS under Obama's plan then they would be otherwise*.

*Unless they had the choice to not pay for any plan.......
There, fixed it for you.....

Re: Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

Originally Posted by Partisan

*Unless they had the choice to not pay for any plan.......**
There, fixed it for you.....

**And either get caught in enormous debt themselves or cause a burden on the taxpayer if health complications did arise, and then never have the chance to buy health insurance for yourself again because you now have a pre-existing condition.

There, ftfy.

Not buying health insurance is the DUMBEST thing you could do with your life. It puts yourself and the taxpayer in risk, because when something happens, someone has to pay the bill.

Re: Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat

He never said that. He said that the goal was to curb healthcare inflation. For example, if the healthcare bill results in healthcare costs only growing by 10% over the next 5 years rather than 30%, that is a good thing.

He damn well did say costs for healthcare would go down. He only had 6,656,345,323 healthcare speeches b/w the campaign and passage saying this.

Re: Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

Originally Posted by ScottD

I'm sorry, maybe I should say this again:
A 17% increase over the next 4 years is a MASSIVE improvement over the rate increases we have seen year after year over the last decade. This is proof that the Healthcare bill is HELPING, not hurting us.

Also, relearn what Socialism is, because if you are calling Obama's healthcare plan socialist, then you have NO idea what the word even means. And saying that it gives China ownership of the US is COMPLETELY unfounded.

Again, your not seeing the big picture here.

Someone who doesn't want to buy it, sees no increase.

Also, your taking money out of the private sector and placing it out of the market, so less money is exchanging hands.

It is not unfounded, b/c we are going to have to call China to take on more of our debt, b/c we can't afford the spending that this is gonna cost.

Re: Health premiums could rise 17 pct for young adults

Originally Posted by Navy Pride

I am telling you people Obama is a liar.......He is a leftist who wants to make this a socialist country....He ran as a moderate but is the most liberal president ever elected.......He has done more damage to this country in 14 months that Bush did in 8 years.......Thanks to him and his insane socialist health care program China owns us........He is unqualified to be president.......Without his teleprompter he is a mental midget........

I know another 3 years of this country will destroy it.......

Wake up my friends before its to late.....Kick all the left wingers out of congress in November........